Forbes – A payment processor and a banker, who were indicted by federal prosecutors in April as part of a sweeping crackdown on the online poker industry in the U.S., have filed strongly-worded legal papers to fight the government’s charges, […]

Observer – Global markets suffered serious setbacks during September as investors’ nerves were tested on numerous occasions. Hopes are now pinned on the fourth quarter which historically tends to support prices but continued uncertainty about the euro zone debt crisis […]

Advisor One – Wall Street loves chess, and chess champions and other gaming experts may very well have developed skills that assist them to excel in the kind of analytical decisions required by high-level investing of the type that hedge […]

Bloomberg – Owners of Endemol NV, the Dutch producer of the “Big Brother” TV shows, will lose control of the company in a restructuring that will reduce debt from 2.2 billion euros ($2.9 billion) to 500 million euros, the Sunday […]

Guardian – The influence of the City over the Conservatives has been laid bare by new research showing that more than half of the Tory party’s donations since the general election have come from individuals and businesses working in finance. […]

City AM – -The hedge fund run by star trader David Harding has defied the industry’s poor performance this year to make returns on investments of around 6.3 per cent so far. City A.M. understands that Winton Capital, which uses […]

NYT Magazine – How much time should Raj Rajaratnam spend in prison? Rajaratnam is the hedge fund founder who was convicted in May of trading on illegal stock tips — tips that produced fantastic results for his Galleon Group. Federal […]

Cayman Island News – The Children and Youth Services (CAYS) Foundation’s Family Reunification Programme has received a further US$36,585 from Hedge Funds Care Cayman, a charitbale organisation that aims to to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect. The programme is designed to […]

Reuters – It was a long wait, but the world’s most renowned metals traders Michael Farmer and David Lilley are finally profiting from a big, bearish bet on copper, trouncing rival hedge funds with a nearly 50 percent gain this […]

This Is Money – These are supposed to be dire days for the once invincible-seeming hedge funds. On Wednesday shares in Man Group crashed by almost a quarter after it revealed clients pulled out $2.6billion (£1.6billion) in funds over the […]

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism – When millionaire hedge fund tycoon, Bill Browder realised at the start of the year that recovering world markets were once again heading for the rocks, he was staring down the barrel of an enormous loss. ‘I […]

Market Watch – The Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposal on hedge-fund registration could subject fund managers with less than the $150 million in assets to the regulation. Hedge funds typically refer to net capital raised when they talk about asset […]